Hello guys, and welcome back! Thank you all, last chapter got a lot of positive feedback, and in only a days time. Sadly, nobody got the question from last chapter, and as of now I will not reveal the answer. All in due time, all in due time. So, as always any and all feedback is encouraged and appreciated, See ya'll later! Enjoy!

See you guys later,

-Tytonic

Attention: This is not the book's plots converted to another universe, so the events will not all match those in the book.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of The Underland Chronicles, only the characters I make up and the plot itself.

Regalia High

Chapter 2: Gonna be a long Year

Can't get much worse than this. He thought. His heart sank even farther when all of Luxa's friends, got placed around him, and Luxa got placed right next to him.

Just had to jinx it, didn't I?

With his luck, he will have Luxa next to him in all of his classes. No, that was far to unlikely. I just jinxed it again. Great, now I'm gonna. I really need to stop with this jinxing thing.

This was going to be a long year.

-O-

As home room came to a close, Gregor let out a breath that he hadn't even know he was holding. Luxa and her friends hadn't bothered him at all. They had looked at him a few times, and he could tell they talked about him some, but nothing to serious. As long as they didn't talk to him, he was fine.

Checking over his schedule one last time, Gregor discovered that he had history first. He also discovered that his locker number was 537, located right next to his home room.

Of all things, I have to have history first? Seriously? Why not math or something? Well, at least my locker is next to home room, so I don't have to worry as much about being late every morning. He thought.

Finally, after a decent sized lecture, the home room got dismissed. Before his first class, history, Gregor, along with every other kid in the school, got to stop at their lockers to dump off any unneeded books.

As Gregor began to fumble with the dial on his locker, which took him a few tries to open, Lizzie came up and began messing with her locker, which happen to be right next to Gregor's, on the right side.

Lizzie managed to open up the locker on her first try (show off), and she began to pile all of her stuff neatly inside. Compared to Gregor's locker, which already had stuff ready to fall out, her locker was neat as possible. Gregor turned to her.

"So. . . History first, right?" He asked.

Lizzie was practically bouncing around. "Yes, it's great right?"

"Uhh. . . Yeah, I guess. Cause you know, going to my least favorite subject first, every single day has me bursting with joy over here." He responded, groaning.

A voice Gregor didn't recognize came from behind him, directed at Lizzie. "Hey, are you not a little young to be in high school?"

Turning around to ridicule whoever had said that, Gregor came face to face with Luxa, who's locker happened to be right to his left.

Her voice surprised him greatly. She sounded sweet and nice, but there was a hidden bitterness behind her mask. Yes, he had talked to her before, but he had never actually had a conversation with her; it was usually just both of them yelling back and forth.

Great. Home room, lockers, and now what? I'm I gonna be stuck next to her all year? Gregor groaned internally.

"Yes, yes I am." Lizzie responded.

Flashing a devious grin, Luxa reached over into Lizzie's locker, and snatched Lizzie's cell phone. "You want it back, you have to either be stronger, or faster than me."

Before Luxa could do anything with the phone, Lizzie put the rest of her unneeded stuff in her locker, and walked up to Luxa. Reaching in Luxa's locker, Lizzie took her phone and began to walk to history.

Lizzie may get panic attacks very easily, but the one thing she will not stand for is bullying. It took Luxa a few seconds to realize what had just happened, and she ran after Lizzie. It took but a second for Luxa to catch up with Lizzie, who had only gotten a few feet away.

When Luxa got to her, Lizzie held her cell phone where Luxa couldn't get it. Lizzie reached out her other hand, and held it open, waiting for Luxa to return her phone. With a groan, Luxa placed Lizzie's phone in her open hand, and grabbed her own phone back when Lizzie held it out to her.

Both girls returned to their lockers, and Gregor couldn't help but open his mouth. "Guess she's smarter, your majesty." Gregor stated, putting a spin on 'your majesty'.

The reason he called her that was due to her nickname around the school. Everybody called her a queen due to her social status, and a thin golden headband she always wore to keep her hair in check, and her formal way of speaking. She happen to be one of the most popular girls in school, as too why, Gregor knew not.

Because of her popularity, she also had many boys going after her, not that Gregor cared, but he was surprised that she had been asked out dozens of times, and had never said yes, not once. Some people say that she is a lesbian, others say that she was abused by her old boyfriend (as far as Gregor knew, she never even had a boyfriend). Despite all of this, Gregor didn't like her in the slightest, despite what Lizzie says. He didn't hate her, he rather disliked her.

Gregor was snapped out of his daze when he almost walked right into the person in front of him. He literally had to look up to see the guys head. He recognized him as Ares, by far the tallest kid you'll ever meet, standing at a whopping 6 foot 7 inches.

Realizing he was right at his history class, Gregor walked in aside Lizzie, and they sat next to each other in the very back of the room. Everybody groaned in annoyance as they recognized the teacher. Ms. Solovet, the worst teacher in the entire school. She told everybody how to do things the supposed 'right' way. If she could, she would give the gym teacher, Ripred, lessons on how to run.

Quite a few of the teachers would allow the kids to choose their own seats, where they would then be assigned to sit for the rest of the year, but Ms. Solovet was defiantly not one of those teachers. As she went over attendance, she yelled at any kid who did not practically scream "here", and put their hand straight up. Once she was done the scream fest, she began to assign kids their seats.

She had already assigned all of the kids that were known to be slackers and trouble makers in the front of the room. That included all of Luxa's friends, but not her. Despite her attitude, she seemed to rarely get in trouble, and she got half decent grades.

Much to Gregor's happiness, all of his friends, as least the ones that where in the class, were placed around him. Lizzie was directly to his left, and Larry was right in front of him. Behind him was Angelina, which he didn't like, because he knew she would stare at his the entire time from there. This was all of Gregor's friends, save another guy named Temp, who he had befriended the year before. Temp didn't have the best English, and he was silent most of the time, but he was very nice. He also praised Boots, Gregor's six year old sister, as if she were royalty. He actually liked that, because he knew he could trust him to babysit at a moments notice, without fear of him screwing up in any way. Gregor did however, feel bad for him sometimes. Boots LOVES to play dress up, and Temp seems to be the target of her games quite often.

Overall, Gregor was satisfied with his seat, aside from one fact. While in home room he was surrounded by Luxa and her friends, Luxa was now to Gregor's right, surrounded by him and his friends. If she ever made his life suck in home room, he had an even longer period of time to make her life even worse.

As the class wore onwards, Gregor grew increasingly tired. He had forgotten about school, and had gone to bed at two in the morning. Then, he had been forced to wake up at six o'clock in order to get to school on time. Usually, Gregor slept like a brick, so he would sleep till twelve on weekends; sometimes even one or two if he had gone to bed late.

Ms. Solovet was reviewing stuff from previous years. Stuff about the revolutionary war, and civil war. Gregor already knew most of this stuff, so he was helpless when his eyelids slowly slid closed and remained that way.

Normally, Larry or Angelina would have woken him up, but since he hadn't moved, neither of them were in a position where they could see his eyes to tell that he had fallen asleep. Lizzie may have noticed, but Ms. Solovet had insane ears, and would hear if Lizzie began to shake Gregor awake. The last thing Lizzie wanted was detention. Most of the teachers were against her going to high school so young anyway, but if she got into trouble, they would surely boot her out and back to 7th grade, where kids her age went.

Gregor's eyes shot and he jumped slightly as a banging sound blew up in his face. Looking around to regain his bearings, Gregor realized that he was in huge trouble. In front of him, Ms. Solovet had slammed her fist down on Gregor's desk in order to wake him up. In any other class everybody would have laughed, but in this class, you would have gotten a detention if you laughed in this situation, regardless as too who had actually been sleeping.

Without a word, Ms. Solovet scribbled something down on a yellow slip of paper and slid it to Gregor. His mom was going to kill him. Detention, on his very first day of school!

Gregor heard a chuckling sound to his right, and both his head as well as Ms. Solovet's head snapped to the side, and glared at Luxa, who was struggling to contain her laughter. Unfortunately, she had let some slip, and before she could say anything in her defense, Ms. Solovet slid another yellow slip onto Luxa's desk.

Normally, Gregor would have laughed at her obvious discomfort, and the fact that she had detention, but not this time. No, not this time. This time, he was going to be stuck in detention right next to her.

I should have seen this coming. Does everything I do now have to be next to Luxa? Can't I get a break around here? Gregor thought. This is gonna be a long year.

That's a wrap on it! So, what did you guys think? I know it doesn't match the books, like it was boots who outsmarted Luxa but this isn't the books. No, this is simply all of the characters shoved into a high school. You know, alongside all of the drugs, fight, gangs *hint hint*, etc. . . So, as usual all feedback is encouraged and appreciated, so give me any and all ideas! See you guys later!

Question: How do you think detention will go?

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-Tytonic